Let the parsley grown at home and not save a large amount of money, but it will always decorate the interior and the served table with its tender greens and enrich the prepared dishes with a complex of vitamins and other useful substances.
Growing parsley: how to choose varieties for planting at home
Greenness and ripening speed are the main criteria for choosing varieties of home-made parsley, the sowing of which and the subsequent care of it do not require any special care. Varieties recommended for growing parsley at home are Bordovinskaya, Curly, Curly Sue, Common Leaf, Prima, Sugar, Yield.
Did you know? The belief says that the sprig of parsley at home enhances the well-being of the family and contributes to its longevity.
What conditions are needed for growing parsley on the windowsill
What kind of lighting do you need parsley?
Parsley light-requiring In the summer daylight hours are quite enough for her at home, but in the winter it is recommended to organize her highlighting with phytolamps for 3-4 hours daily. 
Important! In winter, additional lighting is needed.
What should be the soil for planting
First, the place itself is prepared for the soil. Tanks taken for it (boxes or pots) are treated with a disinfectant non-concentrated solution of potassium permanganate. In a pot intended for growing greens at home, there should be a drainage layer and a hole to remove excess moisture. For root crops soil can be used as a store, and you can prepare a mixture of garden soil, turf and humus in the ratio of 7: 1: 2. Phosphate fertilizers and lime are simultaneously added to this mixture. For seeds, the substrate is taken from biohumus and coconut fiber (1: 2).
Humidity and temperature for successful growth
Parsley does not like the heat and when planting, and while caring for her. 12-19 degrees of heat, it is quite satisfied. Optimum humidity - 75-80%. Excessive dryness can be compensated by spraying moisture using a special appliance or manually.
Important! It is impossible that the air temperature was above 20 degrees.
How to plant parsley at home
How to plant parsley seeds
In general, parsley grown from seeds is quite fastidious. But additional efforts are worth it - for more than a year after that, fresh greens will be at your disposal.
Planting seeds is as follows:
- 24 hours before sowing, seeds are poured with water to remove the essential oils that prevent quick germination;
- 2 hours before the main procedure, water is changed for a weak solution of potassium permanganate;
- The planting itself takes place to a depth of only 0.5 cm, but 1 cm more soil is poured on top.
Growing parsley from root vegetables
This method is not too troublesome. Before the soil in the garden freezes, root crops with petioles are dug out in the right amount. Option - buying in a store or on the market. In both cases, the roots should not be damaged. Their magnitude may fluctuate. Close to optimal diameter is from 2 to 4 cm. On a larger root, more buds and leaves will appear. In the prepared and moistened soil, placed in a box (pot), root crops are planted at a distance of 2 cm from each other. The spacing between rows is twice as large. The heads of root crops are not covered. After planting, the soil is slightly crushed and watered well.
Features care for parsley at home
- the container with the planted plants is transferred to the coolness of a closed loggia or balcony, where the parsley in moderate doses is provided with regular watering;
- after the beginning of the growth of petioles, the plants are on the windowsill;
- the symmetry of the growing parsley bushes is maintained by regularly turning the pot (box);
- the content on the windowsill is marked by an increase in the abundance of irrigation, which is becoming more frequent;
- dressing should be given if the appearance of parsley is alarming - the necessary fertilizers are bought in the store.
Since it is not very difficult to make several distillations of the plant and grow parsley in the winter for subsequent placement on the windowsill, you should start with the planting of small root crops, you just need to continue larger ones after a while.The pots with the planted seeds are first cleaned in a dark place, watering is done in a day, the seedlings are transferred to the window sill when it becomes green, and the sprouts that appear are thinned out. The distance between them is 4 centimeters. No matter how the parsley grows with any method of planting, it needs abundant summer and moderate winter irrigation.
Potted Parsley: Harvesting
It will not take a month, as it will be possible to cut the first harvest of parsley, grown from root crops. Seed parsley ripens a little later (after 1.5 months). Cut 10-12 centimeter twigs need so that remained petioles up to 5 cm.
Did you know? The experience of beauties of the 18th century, which preserved the skin's youth with the help of parsley infusion, continued with the active use of parsley in modern cosmetology.
Being the most common herbal crop, parsley improves our life by increasing the stability of the human immune system, speeding up metabolic processes, strengthening blood vessels and lowering blood pressure, clearing the body of accumulated toxins, quietly doing much more necessary and useful.
